Luna POV

Once Paul and I had changed, we both hunted down Isabella and the new girl. We hadn't said much but we didn't need to. We also refused to stop touching each other and kept so close to one another that even going around a corner we didn't lose sight of one another. I imagine Isabel and her boy were the same. I could just imagine the reunion those two had once everything had calmed down some.

Everyone seemed to be in the dinner room, thankfully someone had made fresh coffee. Paul tossed some clothing at Edward, who looked surprised that we'd brought him anything at all and Cassie went to ransack the kitchen for food. She'd also kept pretty close to my side, I didn't mind, especially after spending the last, only god knows how many days we spent in those cells. We hadn't even gotten to go outside.

"How long were we gone?" Paul asked Jake, the three of them all sharing looks and some kind of secret conversation.

"A few days," Jared said finally. Angela entered the room, looking quite relieved and she went straight for Cassie, both of them hugging and tearing up a little.

Bella got the ball rolling. "Luna this is Alexia, she's Burkov's daughter," I raised my eyebrows, eying her a moment. She wasn't fresh meat, so he wasn't going all mad scientist because she'd been recently turned.

"Let me guess, your daddy has more issues with what you are then you?"

She nodded once, staring at me in an odd way. "What?"

"I read the file on you," she said tensely, and that got everyone's attention.

"Okay, and?"

"You were experimented on the most, apparently the effects were not as desired, successful, but not as they anticipated," Edward said when Alexia kept silent after that, either because neither of them wanted to say it, or because they were waiting for that sink in. I of course, already knew this and god a little impatient with the delay of information. I wanted everything out on the table.

"What does that mean?"

"Your stronger then you should be, they haven't even gotten to track the full effects of the surgeries on you. I assume you know about the serum that keeps your heart going?"

"Keeps my heart going?" I asked confused, "oh right," I raised my arms, self consciously folding them to cover up the clear view of the continuous injections I'd been subjected to. Of course Bell saw it and was staring at my arm for a moment in contemplation.

"He wasn't lying. The surgeries were hard on your body, they would've killed a human, and previous experiments done on the other werewolves killed the host within weeks. It multiplied and their bodies and organs fought the lesions too long that they either shut down or gave up resisting, kind of like a cancer," we all gave her looks, comparing being experimented on to cancer, was not helping. "But yours had a different result. You bonded with it, they hadn't made any changes because of the nature of the research, which despite the dead experiments were still a success, you just seemed to be superior to other wolves."

"Wait, wait, wait, back up. Are you saying she may still die?" Paul asked, panicking a little, eyes shooting to mine in disbelief. Yeah that would suck. It was one thing to have a mate go nuts and possibly kill everyone in sight to find you and get you back, a whole other thing if they can't kill the thing because its embedded within you. Apparently that got everyone's attention considering even Cassie was staring at me worriedly.

"Well, the injections your given is like a boost, to strengthen your immune system, brain waves, everything it gets access to through blood, so basically everything. You've already turned out to be exceptional, so I don't think you will die. It's a possibility if you become sick, and getting sick is unavoidable, but as your body adjusts to the new additions it'll eventually bond with you on a cellular level as well. As long as you continue the shots, you should be okay," she explained, a little hesitantly, seeing the look on my own face.

"So your saying whatever they did to me, I'm going to be like this forever?" I asked, closing off my emotions on the subject, for now anyways. We had other things to worry about then some melt down over something that can't be changed.

"It's not something that can be altered Luna, I'm sorry. With time I may be able to find a way to freeze them, sort of speak. But by that time it'll be a part of who you are, a part of your DNA," no one seemed to know how to respond to that.

"And us?" Rosalie asked quietly. Aside from Rosalie's eyes, I didn't know who she meant by 'us'. I was pretty sure it was just her and I until now, but looking from Edward to Alice, it wasn't hard to figure out that Edward was also the other person who been altered. Isabel tensed, eyes widening, I guess she hadn't noticed. It had been one hell of a day for her. I was proud of her, we weren't gone that long and her timing was great, more or less.

"Well your injections will be just as frequent, the procedures were different from Luna's because of your physical structures. You'll always be in the same body, so they only had to alter that single form. Luna's was much more complex," she explained, her attention returning to look at me as she said that. "When wolves change forms, it isn't going from just one form to a second one. Your changing millions of times to get to that shape. So in turn, they had to affect as many parts of your in both forms till it just became a part of you."

"They forced her shift?" Isabel asked suddenly outraged as I had tensed, and apparently Aleera had known because she snarled in my mind. Though I couldn't blame her, that other side of us was as personal as touching your soul. It was like having your privacy invaded, or worse, it was like being violated. I mean sure we ran around with one another in our animal form, but it was still us, just us, well us, and our wolf, but it was one person. Something that was uniquely us and that shouldn't be touched, let alone altered without our permission. Hell, Aleera didn't even like when I told people her name.

"It was necessary for the procedures to be completed," Alexia said cringing at Bell's anger. Even Paul was infuriated next to me.

"Everyone calm down," I said, before Isabel could rip off her head or something, Bell just glared at the girl, "what's done is done Isabel. We have other things to concern ourselves with."

"Like what?" she asked angrily, continuing to the death stare the girl.

"Like these pups, anyone want to tell me why they haven't back yet?" I snapped, gesturing at the now sleeping wolf pups all squished together as little balls of fur in the corner of the room, all of them were different shades of grey. Three boys and a girl, one of the boys was a dark almost black grey, one was a very light grey, one was different shades and seemed to have a dark diamond on his forehead. The girl on the other hand had patches of silver all over her, I could also see white and black paws barely tucked in. I also noted the fact that all three of them had crowed around her so she was all curled up in the center of the circle. I thought that was cute.

"They've undergone another procedure, that I may also be able to reverse. But for now, they're stuck in that form," Alexia explained, as everyone shared disgusted and disbelieving looks with one another. "The entire litter survived though."

"Yeah, cause that's the silver lining," I said sarcastically, running a hand through my hair. "Whatever. Alright, congratulations Alexia. Your now property of the Arizona pack, which coincidentally happens to be more or less powerless and underground. But until you fix whatever your father did to those pups along with these vamps, your ours, understood?"

She shrugged, "it's not like I have anywhere to go. You killed my father."

"Yes, and I'll be sure to make him suffer even more when we meet up in hell," I bit out, then turned to address everyone else. "Get some rest, eat, relax, once we get to shore were all headed home, wherever that may be. The pups will be staying with us, we'll arrange safe transportation for everyone, for now there isn't a whole lot that can be done."

Everyone left the room, leaving Bella, Adam, Paul, Edward and myself. We all sat down together, myself and Paul in the arm chair as I plopped down on his lap. Edward and Bella sprawled out across the couch together and Adam just sat down on the chair. "Call them," I said to Adam, giving Paul a quick kiss.

"Hey Adam," Brandon's crystal clear voice made my own heart thrum happily.

"Not just Adam," I said evenly, grin splitting across my lips as the rest of my family chorused there greeting and relief.

"Is everyone okay?" Gwen asked anxiously.

"Were all good, no one was fatally wounded or anything," Bella said to my left.

"When will you be home?" Connor and Cole asked simultaneously.

"Soon, a few days. We'll get a private plane set up to get to," I trailed off looking at Bell expectantly.

"Los Angeles," she supplied instantly.

"Yes, good thinking," I said thoughtfully. "I'm going to email you guys a list of laboratory supplies." Silence met my request, which didn't surprise me much. "Yeah, there are some complications, but everything will be just fine. We have someone more then willing to help us."

"As long as we help her," Isabel added guiltily, I raised my eyebrows, "she wants control. Her legacy has no control."

"Well what's one more issue, either way we need her," I said with a dismissive gesture. "Now, are you still searching for our missing family members?"

"Yes, we've looked up several leads, and we actually found Max and Madeline," I shared looks with Isabel, both of us smiling a little.

"You mean little Maxie?" I asked innocently.

Max responded almost instantly, "Screw you Luna!" Why does everyone keep saying that to me?

"Oh come on now, you didn't miss me?" I asked grinning widely.

"Maybe just a little," he admitted and I grinned even more.

"Where were you guys?" Max who is thirteen, and Madeline who is twenty, were from separate litters, but both litters were small. Max only had one other brother Marshall, and he died off during the end of the big fight, along with his older brother, Madeline's twin brother Macon. Though Madeline was far more careful then her counterpart, and Macon was more invested in the cause after his little brother had been killed. She didn't see it the same way, she became over protective when it came to Max, and I couldn't blame her. I guess it shouldn't surprise me that they'd stuck together.

"Here," Madeline responded, "so we heard all of those little rumors. Anything you'd like to share? Heard you had a bit of a freak out before you got jumped."

I tensed, having hoped that this wouldn't come up and everyone in the room turned to me now, being reminded yet again, that I knew something I didn't like. "It's a little complicated."

"Don't evade the question, what do you know?" Adam asked sharply.

"It was all confusing, I couldn't really understand it, I need to read more," I said trying to sound nonchalant. No one bought it.

"Just spit it out," Nate said impatiently.

"It's got nothing to do with you, I'm not saying anything until I know more," nobody liked that much.

"Then who is it about? You? Isabel? Both of you?" Brandon asked more then a little annoyed with my stubbornness.

"No, yes, I don't know, maybe. Would you just drop it for now?" Isabel was the only one who didn't look all that perturbed with this latest development so I got the feeling she was either going to hound me for answers later or she could figure it out on her own. Which meant she could read those books. Note to self: jack the books.

"Fine," Isabel said looking slightly smug.

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Isabel POV

I had been naive to think everything would go back to normal once we arrived home in Los Angeles. I was wrong. Only Alice returned home, Rosalie didn't have much of an option but to stay with us and Emmett had joined us right away. Everyone had made it explicitly clear that if he was caught selling us out he was dead meat, and because that put Alex in danger, it meant Rosalie might die or get sick. Whatever getting sick meant for a vampire.

Cassie had wanted to stay, but we sent her home with Jared and it was quite a teary goodbye on her and surprisingly enough, Luna's part, though she had promised that she'd come visit soon. But I got the feeling they had different definitions of soon. Jake stayed as well, which surprised everyone, along with Paul, and both of them broke ties with their pack, so they no longer had an mental connection with them. Which also meant we didn't need to concern ourselves with too many people overhearing our plans and whatever else went on in their minds. They hadn't submitted to anyone considering we were still alpha-less, but for the time being Brandon, Adam and Luna had all taken the role of leader.

Edward stuck around of course. Edward, Jake, and Paul had all invested themselves in helping us find our remaining pack members that scattered themselves everywhere. We got lucky with Max and Maddy, as we'd only found one other living pack member, Arion who had been hiding out on the outskirts of New York. We also had found one other pack member, Giselle, who was very much dead when we arrived on scene. We'd been several days late finding her. It only made more of us worry, none of us thought it was just a coincidence that the second person we find happens to be dead. More of us had been found then we thought.

Which led to Luna suggesting we sent out a world wide message to every supernatural alive. That takes a lot of power, and she wouldn't explain just how she intended to do that other Angela, myself and Edward being involved.

As soon as we'd returned home a huge argument had broken out that Luna clearly ignored. She'd confiscated the Hidden, taken them up to her room and she left the room for only two reasons, to eat, which was maybe once a day, if we had started running on thirty six hour days, and for her injections, which everyone took a the same time to keep everything less complicated. Every time we saw her she looked worse and worse, something was bothering and whenever we asked she'd just get up and leave the room, and she was more stubborn than I was something. For now all we could do was wait.

Paul missed her, a lot, which is why he spent most of his time reading all of the books he could in the library, and even Alexia had begun to show him how the research was going under his request, Luna put a quick stop to that. So aside from them sleeping in the same bed, he didn't see much of her.

We were doing the spell right now, and everyone was standing out in the back yard. The full moon was powerful for every supernatural being out there, so it was only logical that we use it to our advantage. Of course all of us wolves would have to shift right after this. Alexia on the other hand had to be dosed up full of morphine and put on lock down for this moon cycle. We hadn't done much on the way of training here, it wasn't exactly at the top of our to-do list.

"What exactly are we supposed to do?" I asked uneasily as Luna assembled us. She had bags under her eyes, she was pale and she looked exhausted. Which also didn't surprise me much, Paul said she hadn't been sleeping well, tossing and turning endlessly, she even had a few night terrors the several days.

"We need our power to bounce off another, which means I need everyone standing within several circles. Bella, Angela, Edward and myself will create the first circle," the four of us stepped forward, and she set down an amethyst the side of a football in the center of us. "Paul stand two feet behind us, and right in between Isabel and I, everyone get the picture?"

"Who do you need for the second circle?" Jake asked uneasily.

"You, for one, doesn't matter where, I'm not strong enough to do this on my own. I need power, but unfortunately we don't have a lot of that. Hence the crystal. Adam, Brandon, Cole, Connor, Nate and despite David being an exile, he was one of our strongest so I need you as well."

"But none of us have any power," anymore, my mind added mentally.

"Your wolf is power, and It's dormant, this may trigger it, that's why I wanted everyone here," she said in a slightly absent voice, her mind a million miles away. "Everyone else just stay within the yard."

"Do you even know what your doing? I've never heard of a spell like this," Adam said frowning heavily. "I mean, where's the sacrifice, or any of the other stuff you do."

"This isn't a normal spell. It's stronger," she said rolling her eyes slightly, as everyone aligned themselves in the proper place.

She pulled out a pocket knife, stepping back and muttered for everyone to stay in place. She proceeded to draw a circle around both the main group and the second group. She linked them, drawing something over the place she would stand at. Then connected her spot to Paul's after telling him to step aside a moment. I stared at her, noticing the sheen of sweat that had broke out across he skin as she finished drawing her own symbol. by the time she'd drawn Paul's she was completely flushed and her heart was pounding.

"What's happening to you?" I asked warily, everyone sharing confused looks. This was new. And since when the hell was she an advanced witch? I really had to get my hands on one of those books.

"I'm fine," she said a little breathlessly, then I glanced at Paul, to see his eyes had glazed over and his heart had picked up.

Then she connected hers to mine, which also got everyone's attention, and I felt it almost instantly. "Holy shit," I breathed, heart racing and suddenly breathless. It was like my energy had been completely sucked from my body.

"Are you alright love?" Edward asked uneasily, and I just nodded, taking my place over my symbol. The air had gotten thick now too, and I noticed the lack of sound. No cars, or animals or insects, just tense silence.

Luna proceeded to draw another symbol at the top of the circle, directly behind her. All of the symbols were different, kind of complicated looking, but they seemed to have an affect on her, and anyone touching one directly. "Everyone needs to stay calm and stay still, understood?" she asked, voice shaking. Everyone shared disbelieving fearful looks.

"You sure it's wise to do a spell like this, look at what it's doing to you," Paul blurted out, voice also unsteady.

"We've already started," I cut in, meeting my sisters gaze. I gave her a nod, knowing she'd be more concerned with how I felt about this rather then everyone else. Apparently that was all the confirmation she needed because she took her spot and drew yet another complex symbol that looked a little like a triquetra, yet wasn't. She set the amethyst over it, and then held out her hand for mine.

"Ow, Luna! What the hell!" I shouted as she cut into my palm and drew a line straight across it.

"It's a blood spell Isabel," she said cutting her own, and then brought both of ours down, placing them on opposite sides of the crystal. As cliche as it is, fog began to leak over the yard, but still no one moved.

"You could've given me a heads up," I muttered, raising my hand to check the wound. "it's not healing!"

"I'm aware, Angela?" she asked, and Angela frowned and then held out her own palm. Luna cut both hands of all of our palms, well everyone in the main circle anyways. Though Edward hesitated, "notice the lack of smell Edward?" she asked eyebrows raised, I frowned, watching him a moment. Apparently he hadn't noticed his lack of blood lust anymore then I had. "It's for blood, and right now, you have it, I need it, and it would affect myself or Bella."

He glanced at me and I just gave him a stiff nod. This was highly unusual, Adam just looked fascinated, he'd clearly never seen anything like this either. I glanced up, noting the lack of stars that had just been present seconds ago. Maybe a tad more then unusual.

The four of us took hands and as soon as I finished the circle and took Edward's hand, things got weirder. For one Aleera's eyes clouded over, literally tumbling rolls of thunder ran through her eyes and the sky mirrored it. No one said a word, and then she began to shimmer with static and even glow a little. It was a dark low though, her dark blue aura that she had. Then with what sounded like boulders colliding the thunder started, and it didn't stop. it was just endless thunder.

I stared at my sister in awe as red veins began popping out of her skin, and starting getting bigger and thicker from almost imaginary to full blown twilight zone. "Luna, what's happ-," she cut me off.

"Quiet!" her voice echoed, it freaking echoed and then lightning crashed and I couldn't help the shiver that ran down my spine as the temperature dropped.

I felt Angela begin to tremble and for a moment I thought it was because she was cold, only when I turned to her, I noticed that her eyes had glazed over in white, and she was hyperventilating. Then she still completely, and her grip on me became iron like. Then I felt something sweep over me and start to almost pull me down to the ground, and I fought to resist it, and I lost my breath, over and over again. Then this stillness swept over me and what felt like ice crashed through my heart and I gasped as I froze over.

I could feel anything, or see anything, but I could hear everything. I could hear the wind, I could hear the thunder and the lightning and everything else from my own beating heart to Edwards thoughts. Then I could see everything, not around me psychically. But my mind was bouncing all over the place. One location to the next and I could hear whispers, just one whisper in a wave of voices as endless as the ocean. I felt everything about them, I was inside of them I realized, and yet frozen in my own body.

Then Luna's voice broke through the confusion crystal clear and every single sound went silent. "To every Other being trapped within this human realm, I would like to inform you that the Arizona pack is no longer in hiding. The Council has stripped our powers, but it wont last nearly as long as you will wish it had. I, Luna Andreou promise that your actions of tyranny will not go unpunished and believe me when I say I have the power to both bring you down and reshape our world as I see fit. So I dare you, hunt us, rally whatever army you can against us, but it will never be enough, because were coming for you and this time were not so easy to kill."